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Livingston Municipal Library Autumn 2018 Volume 4, Issue 3 @ourlibrary Falling into fall...
As autumn quickly approaches, we have many accomplishments of some of the best creative activities and events to get you more involved at writers in our state, will be on display at our library Livingston Municipal Library! from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30.
On Sept. 19 (11:00am), The Friends of the Tai-Chi classes will be offered on Thursdays Library will have a membership meeting, (1:00pm) during September and October. so if you would like to learn more about the
Friends and their contributions to the library, Don’t forget that Livingston Municipal Library Upcoming Events your are encouraged to attend. The Friends offers one-on-one technology training will also host two Book Adoption Days this September sessions several times per week, as well as fall, on Sept. 21 (10:00am-2:00pm) and Tech Tuesday sessions on the 2nd and 4th Library Card Signup Month Nov. 16 (10:00am-2:00pm). You can choose Tuesday of each month, from 3:30pm- Sept. 10 Lab Girl (Pushing from the wide selection of hardbacks, paper- 4:30pm. Upcoming Tech Tuesday topics backs, movies, and audiobooks, and make a the Limits, 5pm) include Resume Basics (September), donation of your choice to the Friends. All Android Basics (October) and Online Sept. 19 Friends Meeting proceeds from book adoptions support the Safety & Security (November). To sign up Sept. 19 Talk Like a Pirate library’s collection development, special for any of our tech training sessions, please events, and programming. Day reach us by phone (936.327.4252) or email
at [email protected]. Sept. 21 Book Adoption Day Sept. 19 is also International Talk Like a
Pirate Day, so you can bring your pirate gear If you were wondering what your library is and help us celebrate during an afternoon October worth, stop by and apply for a library card to story time adventure. The program starts at Oct. 8 The Wright Brothers find out! September is Library Card Sign- 4:00pm. Up Month, and what better ways to cele- (Pushing the Limits, 5pm) brate than getting a card for the first time or Acclaimed storyteller Bernadette Nason will Oct. 21-27 Friends of renewing your membership. A library card is join us on Oct. 23 (3:00pm) to present Libraries Week a low cost way to access thousands of “Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night.” books, audiobooks, and movies. Oct. 23 Stories for a Dark and These creepy tales are appropriate for early
childhood through elementary age. Stormy Night (Bernadette City of Livingston residents can obtain a
Nason) card for free, while Polk County residents The spooky fun continues with a Halloween can get a card for a $5.00 annual member- Oct. 31 Book or Treat Book or Treat (Oct. 31, 4:00pm), a family- ship fee. When you consider the average friendly celebration including a costume cost of hardback books ($25.00), mass contest and book giveaway. It promises to be November market paperbacks ($9.00), e-books ($2.99 spooky (but not too spooky!). to $9.99), and Blu-ray discs ($20.00 or Texas Writers Exhibit more), we hope you’ll see that the member- Join us on Nov. 15 (4:00pm) for a Harvest Nov. 5 The Relic (Pushing the ship fee is well worth it. Celebration to usher in Thanksgiving. There Limits, 5pm) will be plenty of harvest-themed crafts and For a complete list of events, please visit our Nov. 15 Harvest Celebration activities. website. Nov. 16 Book Adoption Day Find us anywhere! The 2019 Texas Writers Exhibit, highlighting the www.livingstonlibrary.net
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over again, there is no use in reading at all. ~ Oscar Wilde
Shelf Space Reader’s Corner If you liked The fifth season, try... A crown for cold silver - Alex Marshall (FIC MAR) Livingston Municipal L i b rary Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (FIC OKO)
707 N. Tyler Avenue Seveneves - Neal Stephenson (FIC STE) Livingston, TX 77351 936.327.4252 All the birds in the sky - Charlie Jane Anders (e-book) [email protected] Name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss (e-book) Hours Red rising - Pierce Brown (e-book) Sunday - Closed Mon - Fri : 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday : 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
The library will be closed on: Exploring Science Fiction and Fantasy
327.12 COR Cyberspies 809.3 CLE Ten billion tomorrows 355 ROA Grunt : the curious Sept. 1 & Sept 3 science of humans at war (Labor Day) 523.1 TYS Startalk 001.944 LOX Abominable science (+e-book) 133.901 SHR Old souls 158.2 GOL Social intelligence Nov. 10 & Nov. 12 364.152 STA The killer of little 520.22 TRE Space atlas (Veterans Day) 001.942 BUL The myth and shepherds mystery of UFOs 130 VOL Fringe-ology
When gadgets betray us (e-book) Nov. 22 - Nov. 24 001.94 KRU The monster 741.2 ROL How to draw sci-fi (Thanksgiving) hunters (+e-book) 591.68 SHA How to clone a utopias and dystopias mammoth
Friends of the Library Author Spotlight: N.K. Jemisin Book Adoptions Speculative Fiction (SciFi/Fantasy) (Adapted from nkjemisin.com) Sept. 21, 2018 10am - 2pm N.K. Jemisin has been changing the face the winners were announced in August. Nov. 16, 2018 10am - 2pm of speculative fiction since 2010, with her first novel, The hundred thousand king- Jemisin, who currently lives in Brooklyn, doms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1). Jemisin NY, earned a degree in psychology from creates multicultural worlds only recently Tulane University, as well as a Master of National Friends of Libraries week is seen in the science fiction and fantasy Education from the University of Maryland. Oct. 21 - Oct. 27, and what better genres. In addition to her fiction writing, she also reviews the latest science fiction and way to celebrate than by joining the “The only way to enact change in such a fantasy literature for The New York Times in friends! There are five membership system is to destabilize it — unfreeze it” Jemisin the column, Otherworldly. writes. “Then quickly push through changes tiers (Individual, Family, Patron, before a new state of stable equilibrium is Jemisin is candid Supporting, Benefactor), and if reached and the system freezes again.” about her literary motivations. “We all you are interested volunteering, And push through Jemisin has. In 2016, have futures,” she leading story times, grant-writing, or she became the first African-American writes. “We all have writer to win a Hugo award for her novel, pasts. We all have offering input on the direction of the The fifth season (The Broken Earth, #1), stories…we all get to Friends, we would love for you to about a planet undergoing drastic climate dream.” change. The following year, she again become a Friend! won the Hugo for The obelisk gate, the For more information sequel to The fifth season. In a historic on Jemisin, please Find us anywhere! feat, the final novel in the trilogy, The visit her official site stone sky, also won a Hugo Award when listed above. www.livingstonlibrary.net